Japanese Terrorist: What? I'll fight Hellstar!

The pocket watch in Professor Matsuura's hand began to swing rhythmically, its metal casing reflecting the light from the lamp and shining into Amamiya Rin's pupils, causing his eyes to follow the watch's movement.

"Watch this sway... good. Your eyelids are starting to get heavy, and your breathing is slowing down... yes, that's it. But your mind is clear, clearer than ever."

Professor Matsuura's voice became even deeper and more distant, as if it came from the ends of the earth, or as if it echoed directly in the depths of Amamiya Rin's heart.

"You will fall asleep, but your consciousness will remain awake. In the dream world, you are the center; everything you see, hear, and sense... is shaped by your will."

"Everything in a dream is an illusion, only your will is real. You are the master of the dream world. In the dream world, you are absolutely safe, and nothing can harm you..."

"..."

Gradually, Amamiya Rin felt her eyelids getting heavier and heavier, and the scenery in front of her began to blur.

After an unknown amount of time, the piercing alarm, the sound of explosions, and the terrified screams woke Amamiya Rin.

Amamiya Rin suddenly realized that she was standing in the middle of a chaotic street.

Everywhere you look, there is a mess.

More than a dozen cars crashed into each other haphazardly. The friction of the metal ignited the leaking gasoline, and the raging fire formed a high wall that cut off the street, with thick smoke billowing up.

People scattered like headless flies, screams and cries rising and falling. Grayish-white walking corpses weaved through the chaotic crowd in the streets, making meaningless hoarse noises. After tackling fleeing living people, they opened their blood-red mouths and tore at the fresh flesh of the human body.

"resident Evil?"

Looking at the surrounding scenery, the moment Amamiya Rin spoke, she realized that she seemed to be able to control her body again.

He raised his hand, clenched his fist, and felt an unusual heaviness in his body.

But it can move! It can move according to its own will!

"As expected! Hypnosis works!"

Amamiya Rin waved his arm excitedly and couldn't help but laugh.

He remembered a manga by Junji Itō, in which a genius hypnotist hypnotized a capitalist, and the effect lasted even after the capitalist died and became a ghost.

Sure enough, this bizarre and wonderful world is so surreal that even hypnosis is beyond reality!

Amamiya Rin was still basking in the joy of her plan's perfect success when a foul, putrid stench wafted towards her.

Several hideous zombies stumbled and staggered, but their speed was not slow at all, as they pounced from the front.

Amamiya Rin's expression changed slightly, and she subconsciously wanted to dodge to the side, but her body felt as heavy as lead. As soon as the thought arose, her body moved more than a beat slower.

Even the attempt to construct the idea that "this zombie does not exist" in his mind was like a stone sinking into the sea, and the dream remained unchanged.

As expected, Professor Matsuura's hypnosis only woke him from the nightmare, but did not allow him to truly turn the nightmare into his own domain.

After all, the "Long Dream" is not his personal dream.

Amamiya Rin could vaguely sense the other five consciousnesses. The five people connected by [Kara] were also in this dream world, which was constructed by the spirits of the six of them. Amamiya Rin was not the sole master of the dream.

However, even if Amamiya Rin was the only one dreaming, he didn't think he could control the dream.

Professor Matsuura's hypnosis is impressive, but it is still limited by human technology, and the "long dream" is clearly not something that the human brain can construct.

To completely control nightmares, it would probably require the intervention of that unnamed hypnotic genius, right?

"But... I don't want to be bitten by zombies! Someone please save me!"

Amamiya Rin stood still, already considering giving up—after all, it was just a dream—but his aversion to becoming food for zombies made him sincerely pray that someone would come to his rescue.

Almost at the same moment that thought flashed through my mind—

"Bang!"

A muffled thud was heard, but the expected pain did not come. Only a few drops of warm, viscous liquid splashed onto Amamiya Rin's face.

He snapped back to his senses and saw the zombie's head explode like a smashed watermelon. The headless body swayed and fell heavily to the ground.

Standing beside the corpse was a beautiful young girl holding a wooden sword.

Her long purple hair stood out starkly against the firelight and smoke, swaying slightly with her movements. Her breasts rose and fell like pudding. The tall girl had a cold and beautiful face, wore a white school uniform, and held a wooden sword in her hand, still in a swinging posture, the blade stained with red and white dirt.

"Are you alright, Lin-jun?"

The purple-haired girl slowly put down the wooden sword and turned her head to look at Amamiya Rin.

"Saeko Busujima?"

Amamiya Rin's pupils gradually dilated as he exclaimed the name of the girl before him in shock.

"What's wrong, Lin-jun?"

The purple-haired girl tilted her head, puzzled by Amamiya Rin's exaggerated reaction.

It should be Amamiya Rin who is confused.

He was absolutely certain that the beautiful girl in front of him was Saeko Busujima, the heroine of Highschool of the Dead!

But why is Saeko Busujima here? And why does she seem so familiar with me?

"Could it be that my will influences the dream?"

Amamiya Rin quickly realized what was happening.

As Professor Matsuura said, dreams originate from the dreamer's will, or rather, the dreamer's cognition.

The things in the dream world are all evolved from Amamiya Rin's subconscious. Since it is a zombie world, Amamiya Rin's subconscious will definitely think of Leon and Aunt Wang. If it is a zombie in the Sakura Empire, then it will definitely think of Busujima Saeko.

Under Professor Matsuura's targeted hypnosis, although Amamiya Rin was still unable to control the dream, she was certain that the dream contained a safety mechanism.

When he desperately needed protection, Saeko Busujima, who appeared out of nowhere, was clearly his safety mechanism.

"This is...fantastic!"

Amamiya Rin began to think that living in the dream world might not be so bad.

After all, Junji Ito's worldview has too many apocalyptic crises.

The human-headed balloon: an unsolvable tale of world destruction.

Hellstar is based on the Judgment Star from the Cthulhu Mythos, an unsolvable natural disaster.

Fish, cursed bacteria, and an unsolvable tale of world destruction.

Call Me Hero: Side Story, a spin-off of Call Me Hero by Junji Ito, is a biohazard-like apocalyptic disaster similar to Highschool of the Dead.

Demon Sound Village, where a demon god from underground transforms women into demons.

The vortex is an unsolvable curse that transcends the boundaries of planets and can distort the galaxy.

Humans are all lonely, and they commit mass suicide.

"Lin Jun?"

Saeko Busujima reached out and touched Rin Amamiya's forehead, her eyes filled with worry.

Cool fingers touched Amamiya Rin's forehead, pulling him back to reality from his chaotic thoughts.